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COME SUNDAY

By Joshua MARSTON

NETFLIX, INC. - as DISTR VOD / PROD

Drama - Completed 2017

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2018

Premieres

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 106 mn
- Director(s)
- Joshua MARSTON
- Synopsis
- Every Sunday, Bishop Carlton Pearson—evangelical mega-star, brilliant orator, and television host with millions of followers—preaches the fundamentalist gospel to 6,000 supplicants at his Higher Dimensions Church. He’s the pride and joy of his spiritual father, Oral Roberts, and the toast of Tulsa. One day, rattled by an uncle’s suicide and distraught by reports of the Rwandan Genocide, Pearson receives an epiphany. Suddenly it’s crystal clear—God loves all humankind; everyone is already saved, whether Christian or not; and there is no hell. But these ideas are heretical, violating sacrosanct doctrines.
  
  The next Sunday, when Pearson unveils this theology of inclusion to his flock, shockwaves sweep the enormous hall. Church leaders and members begin to defect in droves, and his empire topples. Based on the true story of a controversial and courageous man of God, Come Sunday elegantly and respectfully captures the authentic texture and tone of Pearson’s devout world, never resorting to hyperbole. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s tour-de-force performance embodies the effusive charisma and grounded humility of a character with everything to lose, yet even more to gain by heeding his convictions.